Description
Now 3 years old, we have a whiskey that fully conforms to the technical file for Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey, with one important exception—it’s made in Brooklyn. Our latest release (of the same whiskey, just an older iteration) is made from malted and unmalted barley, is triple distilled, and is aged for 3 years in used cooperage. Rather than an “Irish-Style” we’ll call it an “homage to Irish distilling tradition” and leave it there. We’ll accept the shorthand if you forget.
It’s important to us because there is a great forgotten story of Irish distillers in America, and especially in New York City, where our distillers came to expand their trade while maintaining culture and traditions from the old country. This cultural exchange is something woven into the fabric of our city as New Yorkers and something we aim to honor, regardless of what any trade organization has to say on the topic, and one we’ll assert our right to make legally within the rules of our government.
Kings County in New York
Kings County Distillery is New York City’s premier craft distillery and among the most acclaimed small distilleries in the United States. Focused exclusively on whiskeys, Kings County has made a name for its Bourbon, Peated Bourbon, Empire Rye and other creative whiskeys. We never sell whiskey made from any other source.
Kings County’s whiskeys have won numerous awards from the ASCOT Awards, the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and have been praised by the New York Times, the New Yorker, Whiskey Advocate and many other sources. Kings County’s whiskeys are always mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged onsite in Brooklyn.
First located in a 325 square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Kings County began as the smallest commercial distillery in the country, with five 24-liter stainless steel stills making whiskey seven days a week, 16 hours a day. In 2012, the distillery moved into the Paymaster Building in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, just steps from legendary site of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the 1860s and the former distillery district of the waterfront.
Kings County blends distilling practices from a variety of cultures into creative whiskeys that remain traditional while defying convention, using Scottish copper pot stills, open fermentation, and local grains to make American whiskeys that expand the category. One of the preeminent craft distilleries in the United States, the American Distilling Institute named Kings County Distillery of the Year in 2016. The New Orleans Spirits Competition (taking place during Tales of the Cocktail) bestowed this honor on us again in 2023, naming us Distillery of the Year.
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